Beginning on Thursday of last week, my social media accounts started exploding with pictures of Daniel Funkhouser’s hypnotizing installation piece “Familiar Glass with Theatrical Spectacle with Transparent Illusion and Artselfie.” (With a title like that, who could resist?) The work was one of many included in this year’s ARTELPHX, a…

Roy Wasson Valle and Koryn Woodward Wasson have been busying creating an alternate universe inside the Scottsdale Public Library this month. Thursday, May 15, marks the official opening of “Camp Dreamtree,” an interactive art piece, which the duo describes as “an art installation in the shape of a camp.”…

Tucked away on the second floor of ASU’s Tower Center Building is a small room with AstroTurf floors and a shiny new glass door. If you peek in, you will see a quote on the wall. It comes from Rebecca Solnit’s Wanderlust: A History of Walking and reads: “Walking allows…

First Friday heats up tonight with creative works going up all over Phoenix. Here are our picks for shows not to miss this evening. “Tom Sawyer Wears A Business Suit” The new Step Gallery in downtown Phoenix is the ideal venue for Bobby Zokaites’s MFA these exhibition “Tom Sawyer Wears…

My grandmother makes wedding cakes for a living. The cakes are always delicious, but it’s their decorative aspects I’ve alway found fascinating. The tiers are pilled high, seemingly in defiance of gravity, and the sugary coating looks impossibly smooth, like untouched snow. When I first walked into “Domesticated,” Carrie Marill’s…

After my first visit to see “Rhythm and History” at the ASU Art Museum, I returned home and immediately began Googling. As its name explicitly states, the exhibition is entrenched in history. Yet I left feeling the gaps in my own historical knowledge exposed rather than filled, as I might…

Contrary to popular belief, you have to be neither an artist nor a child to take an art class. You might not be the next Monet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun honing your painting technique. From sand casting to alternative printing, the art classes in metro Phoenix…

After working for years as the director of secondary market, John A. Reyes has been named director of Bentley Gallery, taking over many of the duties previously held by gallery owner Bentley Calverley. “I was delighted to be a pioneer in moving gallery operations to Phoenix 10 years ago and…

First Friday heats up tonight with creative works going up all over the city. Here are our picks for shows not to miss this evening. “Librería Donceles” This exhibition comes to Arizona via the ASU Art Museum International Artist Residency Program. Artist Pablo Helguera, who is also the director of…

Spring officially starts on March 20, but to catch all the great exhibitions this season, you’ll want to get started ASAP. From a group show that entrances your senses to a solo exhibition featuring one of our favorite street artists, there’s plenty to be excited about in the art scene…

Douglas Miles doesn’t need your praise. The artist, who hails from the San Carlos Apache reservation just east of Globe, seeks to reinvent contemporary Native American iconography, challenging mainstream imagery associated with the Native experience. It’s no small feat. But as much as his art has the power to shift…

Douglas Miles doesn’t need your praise. The artist, who’s affiliated with the Apache and Akimel O’odham tribes and hails from the San Carlos Apache reservation just east of Globe, seeks to reinvent contemporary Native American iconography, challenging mainstream imagery associated with the native experience. It’s no small feat, to be…

We’d like to think Jay-Z would be pleased with the name of Phoenix’s newest local press. Art Problems, the brainchild of photographer Mo Neuharth, “aims to provide the creative platform for visual artists to transform their art into printed material,” according to the press’ lovely website…